Shortcut To Hire Maids Leads To Cash Loss

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The United Arab Emirates residents who are attempting to hire Asian maids through agents situated outside the UAE are cautioned against a new deception. Two Indian families living in the Emirates say that are deceived by one untrustworthy agent. The scarcity of Indian maids in the Emirate after strict rules set by the Government of India has given rise to scams where agents and companies state that they operate outside of UAE and offer domestic helpers in the UAE for a lesser wage and costs. The Indian Government has banned sending Indian maids of age below 30 years to foreign countries to work as domestic helpers and moreover a minimum bank guarantee of DH 9182 ($2500) is now compulsory. Fraudsters are taking advantage of this rule to earn money quickly. Therefore, it is better to hire a housemaid from an Agency for Maids in Dubai.
In one case, an Indian trying to recruit a housemaid in the UAE through an agent in India lost DH 2000. He said that he transferred this money through wire transfer to the agent. His wife found this agent from the internet and got in touch with him ...
... through emails. The agent called her and assured to send a maid to Dubai after he got his service charge of DH 3000. The couple sent the agent DH 2000 and promised to pay the remaining amount after the representative of the agent provided them the maid. However, they lost the money and didn’t get any housemaid.
Agents are aware of the fact that it is extremely difficult to get a maid in the Emirates and they are taking advantage of this. They ask for booking amount of anything between DH 3000 and DH 6000. Moreover, some agencies are putting up advertisements in the internet providing Indian maids for DH 700 to DH 800 monthly, which is much lesser than the minimum maid fees in the Emirates and ask for a charge of DH 3000 to be paid in advance for hiring Indian maids. There are many agents placing classifieds on websites proposing services of live-in maids for a certain charge, however, majority of them are fraudulent. On more Indian family has also been deceived in this manner. Such families are guiding people not to pay money in advance for hiring maids, but they are not filing a police complaint.
Such suspect companies give advertisements offering Sri Lankan, Indian, Indonesian and Filipina housemaids for a booking fee of DH 2500 for full-time housemaid and DH 2500 for part-time housemaids at a monthly wage of DH 750. As soon as the fees is sent to the agents, they do not reply to emails or phone calls. Western Union Money Transfer have been warning customer regarding different kinds of deceptions in which consumers are informed not to send money via the company to unknown persons. Western Union is a great service to send money to persons you know and have faith in. But if you send money to unknown persons, then you are placing yourself to a threat of deceit. The Western Union has listed various scams and says that they never suggests consumers to send money to unknown people or people whose identities cannot be established.
The best way to recruit a housemaid in Dubai is from Housemaid Agencies in Dubai or any reputed Maid Agency UAE so as to avoid being duped.